Instructions

The text screen shows the text of the page you want. It is described below.

The calendar screen shows the calendar, listing days, dates and feasts. Read about it here.

The text screen

This shows the text of each Hour, or the Mass or the About Today page.

Size

The screen starts off at a standard width that doesn't make the text too wide to read. If you want to make it wider, drag its right-hand edge to the right just as you would with any other window.

Text size and appearance

The command View > Fonts lets you choose a font and a font size to suit your needs.

Options in the text

In the middle of a text page, you will often see a menu button on the right-hand side of the screen. The menu button lets you choose among various options within the page. Depending on which program or app you are using, the menu button will either be a stack of red lines or a blue arrow.

On optional memorials, you can choose whether to celebrate the memorial or stick with the ferial day.

On memorials, you can choose whether to use the Mass readings of the memorial or those of the ferial day.

In the Liturgy of the Hours, you can choose whether to see the Invitatory Psalm or not, and which Invitatory Psalm to use.

In the daytime Hours, you can choose whether to see the psalms of the day, the complementary psalms, or both.

In the Order of Mass (and also in Mass Today), you can choose between different penitential rites, Creeds, Eucharistic Prayers, and so on.

Hours and pages

The Hour menu lets you choose between all the pages Universalis offers: the Liturgy of the Hours, the Mass pages, and additional pages such as About Today.

Dates and calendar

The Date menu lets you go back and forward through time, go back to today, or display the calendar screen. As well as letting you pick any date you want, the calendar screen lets you choose which local calendar you want to use.

There is a General Calendar, shared by the whole Church, and then there are local calendars which have saints and celebrations of more local interest. For example, Saint Benedict is celebrated with a memorial in the universal Church but with a feast in Europe, while Saint Willibrord, who isn't in the General Calendar at all, is celebrated with an optional memorial in some English dioceses and a solemnity in the Netherlands.

Settings

The Tools > Options command gives you various general choices about Universalis: for instance, the languages to be shown in the Order of Mass, Mass readings and Liturgy of the Hours, and whether to show commentaries below the readings at Mass.

The toolbar

The toolbar gives you short cuts for the commonest operations.

This control lets you choose the date. The left and right buttons move you back and forward by one day. Clicking the numbered
button in the middle takes you to the calendar screen, where you can go to any date you want.

The
button at the top right shows you the name of the current page and lets you move from one page to another.